Class III Kill Storm Set To Arrive Tomorrow

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR A MIXTURE OF SNOW, SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON WEDNESDAY TO NOON EST THURSDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

* LOCATIONS... THE WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN POSTED FOR CARBON AND MONROE COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA AND SUSSEX COUNTY NEW JERSEY.

* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS... 4 TO 8 INCHES.

* ICE ACCUMULATIONS... TWO TENTHS TO FOUR TENTHS OF AN INCH.

* TIMING... SNOW SHOULD OVERSPREAD THE WARNING AREA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND MIX WITH AND CHANGE TO SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN AT TIMES WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE WINTRY MIX SHOULD THEN END LATER THURSDAY MORNING.

* IMPACTS... TRAVEL ON UNTREATED ROADWAYS WILL BECOME VERY HAZARDOUS. ICE ACCUMULATIONS MIGHT ALSO CAUSE SOME ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES.

* WINDS... NORTHEAST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH.

* VISIBILITIES... ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF MILE AT TIMES.

* TEMPERATURES... SHOULD REMAIN AT OR SLIGHTLY BELOW FREEZING THROUGHOUT THE EVENT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET... AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR

****ing ice & freezing rain. Double the snow, but **** you and this freezing rain **** - GFY Mother Nature. If your goal is to remove all trees from this area, then ****ing have a volcano erupt so they can all be leveled in a pyroclastic flow already.

A bitter cold spell in Russia has claimed 123 lives in the past 10 days, an official says, with the unseasonably early freeze testing authorities in a country used to notoriously tough winters.

Temperatures have plunged to around minus 30 degrees Celsius in the Moscow region and minus 60 degrees in Eastern Siberia, as part of a winter being described by local media as the coldest in 70 years. (so around -75 F)

NW Jersey and SE NY (Westchester, Orange, Sullivan, etc) and especially Western PA/NY will get most of this snow. WIll be too warm for anything more than rain south of 78/287 into Central and South Jersey and much of the City and LI. If anything, just a light accumulation of slush late tonight.